Analysisīeah makes use of flashback and foreshadowing both in this chapter. The adults’ pity so angered Beah that he would sometimes kick their children at school.Ī later attack on Kamator separates Beah from Junior the brothers never see on another again. When he sees a little boy who always starts fights in the village, Beah is reminded of his younger self and Junior, who were treated as outsiders in their own community due to their mother’s departure. Beah learns how hard it is to farm as they are barely able to perform a portion of the work that the local villagers can accomplish. Without the immediate threat of rebel invasion, the villagers decide that the boys need to work at farming to earn their keep. The boys accept and guard the village vigilantly for a month, after which time their wariness dims. When the boys arrive, they are offered food and a place to sleep in exchange for acting as the village’s watchmen. She gives Gibrilla news of his aunt’s whereabouts. As Beah in the present sits on the verandah of an abandoned house, he wishes Junior would again ask him if he were fine.Ī group of travelers pass through the abandoned village, among them a woman who knows Gibrilla. In the process, Beah fell and Junior got him to his feet and asked him if he were fine. As they leave, Beah notices that his brother Junior has become unusually quiet.īeah remembers when Junior taught him to skip a stone on the river. The boys are grateful, but choose to move on as they know the rebels will eventually reach this village as well. The villagers then give the boys cassava and smoked fish to eat and offer to let the boys remain with them.
Beah notes that he does not recognize the young man. A young man steps forward and, calling Beah and his friends by name, saves their lives. At the mention of Mattru Jong, the chief asks if anyone present has spent time in Mattru Jong and can corroborate the boys’ story. Beah explains what rap music is and that he and his friends had a dance group in Mattru Jong. When it is played and the chief hears the strange music, he inquires where Beah got it. The entire village seems prepared to execute the boys as rebels when the village chief discovers Beah’s rap tape. The guards take the boys to the village, where they are accused of being rebels.
The boys decide to avoid the villages so as not to alarm the inhabitants, but as they leave the forested area at one point, they are accosted by a nearby village’s machete-wielding guards. Despite the fact that a group of six boys is drawing attention from and instilling fear in the locals, Beah and his companions stay together out of a desperate need to feel safe.
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